fight over trifles

fight over trifles

Chinese idiom, Pinyin is j ī ch ó NGD é sh ī, meaning generally refers to relatively small gains and losses, not worth considering. It's from bound chicken.

Analysis of Idioms

Every penny counts every penny

The origin of Idioms

Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty wrote "the little slave tied the chicken and sold it to the market, but the chicken was tied and competed with each other.". I hate chickens, insects and ants at home. I don't know if chickens are sold or cooked. How thick and thin a worm is to a man, I chide a slave to untie him. When there is no gain or loss, we should pay attention to the mountain Pavilion on the Hanjiang River. " After the change of the original meaning, in order to compare the trivial gain and loss.

Idiom usage

To be formal; to be subject, object, clause; used in writing. Example: Song Dynasty Zhang yuangan's "water melody song head" CI: "sit and see such as cloud autumn Jia, don't ask chicken and insect gains and losses, Swan under the pianpianpian." Chapter 125 of the popular romance of the Republic of China written by Cai Dongfan and Xu Kuai: "the gain and loss of the chicken and the worm, the contention of the cochlear horn, make the world turn upside down, the sun and the moon have no light." In Song Dynasty, Zhou Zizhi's poem "Fisherman's pride. When you meet Kan, you will be separated by the current." how much can a chicken or insect gain or lose? 」

Idioms and allusions

Du Fu, a great poet of Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "bound chicken line" when he was in Kuizhou: "little slaves bound chickens to sell to the market, and chickens were bound to compete with each other. I hate chickens, insects and ants at home. I don't know if chickens are sold or cooked. How thick and thin a worm chicken is to a human being, I chide a slave to untie it. When there is no gain or loss, we should pay attention to the mountain Pavilion on the Hanjiang River. " He believes that the gains and losses of chicken and insect are insignificant compared with the governance of the country.